Q&A: Whats the best free video making software?
Question by Billy: Whats the best free video making software?
I’m looking for a free video software that I can use to make movies. Something that allows multy layers of audio, different effect, and if possible, multy screen options where I can have different clips play at the same time.
Any ideas?
Best answer:
Answer by Samuel Adams
The best free video editing software believe it or not is Windows Movie Maker.
Windows MovieMaker 2 is a capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP computers these days package.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
WAX
Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein
Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on…
http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html
Chopper XP
Chopper XP is a tool that lets you extract a part of any DVD easily. It is a Vob cutting program with a video display and a great interface. You just need to scroll to a location and select mark in and out points. The program also lets you set any priority of extraction and displays the estimated time left for extraction.
http://www.digital-miner.com/chopperxp.html
Virtual Edit
Virtual Edit is a semi-professional software video editing package aimed at ambitious content creators to video novices, who want to produce material with a slick and professional look, on a limited budget. Virtual Edit has been written by experts with experience in the Television and Broadcasting industries, which has been encapsulated in this simple software package.
http://www.virtualedit.net/home.htm
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